Red Sky at Noon

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<p>'An epic adventure story set against the most awful war in history. Ridiculously good' Dan Snow<br><br><b>'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire ...'</b><br><br>Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. <br><br>He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines.<br><br>Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of Southern Russia, and Stalin's plans in the Kremlin, between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a heartbeat away.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Red Sky at Noon</i></b><br><br>'<i>Red Sky at Noon</i> is an epic adventure story set against the backdrop of the most awful war in human history. The master historian shape-shifting into the brilliant novelist. Ridiculously good'. Dan Snow<br><br>'Mythic and murderous violence in Russia...there are power-drunk Nazis and Soviet traitors, including a particularly memorable villain ...Written with brio &amp; deep knowledge of its fascinating subject matter... a deeply satisfying pageturner.' - Book of the Month,<i> The Times</i><br><br>'In this third volume of The Moscow Trilogy, the fate of combatants and civilians is often harsh. With his feel for<b> vivid and immediate drama</b> and impressive research, the author evokes the extreme turbulence and violence impacting on individuals. <b>Writing with passion</b>, Montefiore makes the point that, up against the huge forces of war, the struggle for personal resolution can be tragic - but never wasted.' - <i>Daily Mail</i><br><br>'The fin

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781784752699

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

360 x 243 x 2 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Verlag / Hersteller

Cornerstone